Introduction: labor, (workers?) autonomy, (art) work -- The monochrome in the neocapitalist laboratory -- Lucio Fontana and the politics of the gesture -- Alberto Burri's plastics and the political aesthetics of opacity -- "We want to organicize disintegration"--Conclusion: "Rea…
Focusing on artwork by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and reveals how abstract painting, especially the monochrome, broke with fascist-associated futurism and functioned as an index of social transition in postwar Italy. Mansoor refus…
"A comprehensive survey of international affairs from the end of the Second World War, through to the Cold War and up to the present day"...Provided by publisher. "A masterly synthesis of the history of the contemporary world, The World Since 1945 offers the ideal introduction …
"This title deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents. Drawing on a broad field of contemporary …
"Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents. Drawing on a broad field of c…
"Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents. Drawing on a broad field of c…
"Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents. Drawing on a broad field of c…
This volume provides a comparative study of exit with regard to international operations of a state-building nature. The essays focus on the empirical experiences of, and scholarly and policy questions associated with, exit in relation to four families of experience: colonial ad…
"This collection of essays brings together some of the leading legal, political and moral theorists to discuss the normative issues that arise when war concludes and when a society strives to regain peace. In the transition from war, mass atrocity or a repressive regime, how sho…
The lingering aftereffects of the Vietnam War resonate to this day throughout American society: in foreign policy, in attitudes about the military and war generally, and in the contemporary lives of members of the so-called baby boom generation who came of age during the 1960s a…
While the best known personal accounts of the Vietnam War tend to center on the experience of combat, Maureen Ryan's The Other Side of Grief examines the often overlooked narratives - novels, short stories, memoirs, and films - that document the war's impact on the home front. I…
